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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-29
THE DRUG PRICER.
Something About the Most Important EN-
plOye of Drug House.

Something About the Most Important EN-
plOye of Drug House.
An advertisement in a commercial
paper called for a drug-pricer, expert
enced in the wholesale and retail trade.
A wholesale druggist, who was asked
about the duties of a pricer. said:
1.-The pricer fixes the prices of the
goods sold in each bill. The pricer in
the drug business must have an init
mate acquaintance with an exceedingly
large line of goods, and must keep
posted on the fluctuations in values of
things for which, for instance, he may
not have a call once year. In the
drug business we make per cent. on
some goods, and on some Is, and on
some 80. 1t costs, say, 10 per cent. to
run the business, and we must make
up what we lose on the per cent
goods out of the Is per cent. goods.
Sometimes we can, on account of the
fluctuations of cost. get greater profits
than at others. The pricer is the
most important employee of the
house, for on his knowledge and skill
the success of the house depends. He
must have a wonderful memory for
names and figures, and he must be able
to forestall changes in the market He
is usually familiar with the processes
of manufacture, and can tell you all
about the gatherings of opium in India
and the curing of ginsengin the United
States"
Then every wholesale druggist must
be pricer, toO?"
son the contrary. not one In a dozen
knows any thing about the prices of
the goods he owns. The pricer does it
all.''
what sort of pay does such a man
commando"
"Wel, competent men are scarce.
They are hard to find. and when a firm
gets one it hangs on to him. A young
man who was trained under me went
to another firm and got 81, 500 a year.
de has since been raised to $1,000"
''As salaries for scarce men go in
New York that does not seem to be ex-
travagant.
"No? Well, it's good pay in the
drug business-mighty good; and there
are plenty of statesmen who are the
next thing to pricers in the matter OF
knowledge who get only $1,000 and
| $1,000. IN z SuR
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-29
WOMEN OANoEIsTS.
Girls Who Find Pleasure in Health Giv1n
Aquatic Exercises

oAr1S ~ no ElnQ PLEASURE IN Heal sItElnK
Aquatic Exercises.
The canoe threatens to become fem
ininely fashionable. The fact of the
matter is, the canoe has been SLAM
dered,' said belle, in talking about
canoeing for women, until it has got
the reputation of being unsafe. That
is what makes it popular among the
more dashing of our girls" She and
her brother have made the trip up the
Hudson to Albany and back. camping
out on the way and otherwise taking
advantage of all the opportunities for
roughing it. what did you wear?
And what did you do with your
clothes?" 1 asked. You surely didn't
take Sunday bonnet along" al
wore blue flannel dress made all in
one piece, with a blouse waist, no
drapery, the skirts reached to the tops
of a pair of extra high boots. 1t
weighed pound and half. 1 wore n
sailor hat and carried light jacket,
to be ready for changes of weather.
Our canoe is rather small to be used as
Il tandem-it measures fourteen feet by
thirty inches-so' that one could not
wished. All that we carried weighed
only thirty pounds. and of this our
Photographic materials, plates, camera,
ETC., weighed between fifteen and
twenty pounds. We started out with
the intention of camping out every
night, but good camping places be-
tween New York and Albany
are not numerous and we
sometimes had to stop at a
hotel. But we did camp about two
thirds of the time. We carried a small
tent-made of sheeting, so that it would
be of less weight than one of canvas-a
blanket apiece and rubber blanket to
spread on the ground. We had a tin
pail apiece and Il tin cup, tin plate and
n knife each and few other primitive
and strictly necessary articles. Then
we carried few canned meats, but not
much in that line, as we expected to be
able to buy most of what we would
want at our camping places. L knew
the canoe, and felt just as safe there
rs 1 would on dry land. If the persons
in a canoe know how to handle it, and
are reasonably prudent in their actions,
there is absolutely no danger. If they
only sit still in the bottom of the boat
they can't overturn it if they try. One
day we went aboard Il brick barge, and
the establishment of the men who ran
the big, clumsy thing showed over our
tiny craft was quite amusing. They
considered us miracles, of course, be-
cause we were willing to go on the wa
ter in such cookie shell, and were alb
solutely sure that we would be upset in
less than half an hour. And as for me,
they could hardly believe the evidence
of their eyes that had been aboard the
canoe. and nothing could have con-
WINGED them that there was another
woman on the face of the earth who
would venture in it on the water. y
Cor. Missouri Republican.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-29
FINELY-CUT FODDER.
The Kind OF Food That Is ReIIshed Most
by Sheep.

The Kind OF Food That Is hellShed h1oBc
by Sheep.
1t is well known that the sheep, of
all our domestic animals, most relish
fine fodder. Sheep take infinite pains
to select the finest parts of the grasses
the heads, leaves and fine branches
of clover, leaving the main stalk in
their racks untouched; while cattle
and horses will eat all alike, if of good
quality. We remember that a noted
farmer once made the strong state
ment that cutting fodder for sheep
was waste of time, and that they did
not eat it as we'll after as before cut
ting. This led us to experiment to test
the correctness of his statement. We
took fifty pounds of early cat and
nicely cured timothy hay and fed it to
sixty thrifty. common sized, medium
wooded sheep, in clean racks. After
giving them longer than the usual time
to eat it, we found twelve pounds of
fragments left The next day fifty
pounds of the same hay, cut short. was
fed to them, and after the same length
of time for eating, we gathered up every
thing in the racks, and found only two
pounds, and this composed of the
longest bits of hay We made also a
comparative experiment with clover
hay, corn-stalks and straw, and found
the saving as great in proportion. In
the case of corn-stalks, they would eat
nearly all of them after cut
ting One-eighth inch long, the
butts being cut into thin shaYings,
the tough hard rind broken into
shreds; while in the uncut state, they
would eat only the leaves, tassels and
fine parts. leaving the stalk almost en-
tire. We tried with cut feed of various
lengths, and found that the shorter 1t
was cut the cleaner they would eat IT.
Invariably the longest straws were
left. We found, practically, that no
other animal is benefited so much by
cutting its fodder as the sheep. The
principal saving in cutting is that it is
all eaten and therefore the animaI APP
pear to eat less. 1t is an excellent
plan to mix hay and straw together
after cutting, or they may be mixed
before cutting. In this way sheep will
eat nearly all the straw, and keep in
good condition. BY cutting, food of
different qualities may be mixed to-
gether and thus save all. 1t is then in
convenient form for mixing Ina bran.
middlings or meal Sheep may be
wintered in fine condition on straw
cut and mixed with n small portion of
bran or meal Two quarts of bran, or
one quart of meal to the bushel of
straw, we have found to keep sheep
and other stock in good condition. We
have cut the fodder for all our animals
for many years and know that it pays.
but for no other animal does it pay as.
well as for sheep.-NationGl Lives tOeh
JoHT nal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-29
MR.. AND MRS. BOWSER.

THE Old Man Tries His Hand at Tailoring,
but Gives Up in Disgust.
The other evening, when Mr.. Bowser
stepped off the street car at our corner,
one of his suspender buttons flew off.
This may or may not have been the
first time in his life that he lost sus-
pender button, but he took it so much
TO heart that l guess it was the first.
He came into the house with the look
of a.man who had been deeply injured,
and shouted at me:
--Do you know whether I've got a
single button left on any of my gar
.anentsP"
@.What is it, dearP"
Don't what-is-it-dear me, Mrs. Bow
seri If you were half wife you'd look
over my clothes once in five or ten
years and catch up the loose buttons!'
why, there's only one button gone,
and I'll have that fixed in two jiffys.
Let me get my needle and"
mo, won't! 1t has been plain to
me for the last year that sooner or
later I'd have to do my own sewing,
and now the climax has arrived"
"Just one minute, Mr.. Bowser."
s'NOt one second! 1 shall hereafter
sew on my own buttons and 1 might
as we'll begin now!'
j had needle and thread and thimbae
Mt hand, but he turned away. Supper
was all ready, and whom 1 mentioned
the fact he replied:
-tGo and eat it, then! 1 have no
time. have got two or three hundred
buttons to sew on"
He wouldn't even permit me to give
him the needle and thread. He hunted
around and found adarning-needle and
some coarse thread and went off up to
his room and locked the door with a
great bang. 1 went up after supper
and looked through the key-hole. Re
hadn't got the button on yet AS the
needle was larger than the eyes he had
tried to enlarge the latter with a bod
kin, and thereby broken them all into
one. He was bothered to know how to
proceed, when L called:
@ s-Mr Bowser, won't you let me imp"
-.No, ma ami Your place is in the
parIor, reading the last French love
story, while your husband sews on his
buttons"
"But shan'tI get you another but
tonp'
..No! There are no other buttons in
the house, or if there was you wouldn't
know it'll shall go down town and buy
some"
He came out, locked the door and
started off, and in half an hour he came
back with a dozen varieties of buttons,
running from pearl to an overcoat
button He also had three papers OF
needles and five spools of thread, and
To these he had added two dozen safety
pins
..Won't you eat supper and let me
sew on the button. MIR. BowserP"
asked as he returned.
..Neyeri 1t is too late! 1 may gel
through in time for breakfast. but you
can clear off the supper table have
been losing buttons for the last five
Years, and now propose to sew then
all on"
When La had locked the door agar
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-29
EAaM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Ham Toast.-Mince some bolleo
han, very fine, stir in a pint OF cream'
with pepper, mustard, butter, ard TWO
eggs; boil and pour over nicely browSed
toast. Set in the oven to dry.-In0l6''-
apOlis Sentinel.
The best feed for setting fowl
according TO Fanny Field. who IS good
authority is corn. pure and simple
1t is TO be observed, however, that TINS
is by no means the best food for 4swls
under other circumstances.
The chances for success IN life are
much greater for the boy who nag
grown up on the farm. and the indus
trious habits formed and the fact that
his evenings were spent at home care
what give him the stamina which ena-
bles him to win in the battle of life
Water, when filtered, that stands
in a metal tank or silver pitcher. with
out porcelain lining, is dangerous to
drink, from the metallic salts it dis
solves. Water that stands uncovered
in any living or sleeping room IS no
longer pure, for it absorbs very quickly
whatever is deleterious in the air.
in discussing bloat in cattle before
a farmers club, one of the members
said that when turning cattle on young
clover he usually placed old hay where
they could get it, and the consequence
was that the cattle would always eat a
portion of the old hay, which, having
been dry, absorbed the moisture and
prevented injurious results. -LndtanGp-
oils Journal.
Potato Fritters.-Boil and peel six
large potatoes or dozen smaller onesie
mash them well, and add four well
beaten eggs. little cream or milk,
chopped parsley, chives, salt and pep
per, and mix the whole together. Raise
on the end of knife about a teaspoon
full of this paste, and drop it into pan
of boiling lard or butter, when the
paste will swell and form light, round
fritter. -BOSton Budget.
Apple Cake.-Take light bread
dough and shorten it, or make a crust
Just us you would for soda biscuits, and
roll out about one-half an inch thick,
then cut good sour apples into quar-
tiers, and again into eighths, and place
the rows on the crusts, sprinkle with
sugar and spice TO the taste and bake,
or you need not season but very little
and make IL sauce of butter, sugar and
water and pour over it.-ErchGnge.
Chickens cough when they have
gapes. Feed them chopped onions
sprinkled with sulphur. Blow sulphur
down the throat-just little-or in
iect kerosene oil into the nostrils that
they may breathe the fumes of the
same all night. Underlay the coop in
which they brood at night with car
bolated lime; the heat of the brood
will cause the acid to be freed, the
breathing of which will remove the
cause. But first move the coop to
clean, shaded quarters, where they
may be as cool as possible. A chickens
heart beats $50 times a minute and it
never perspires. Sometimes heat is
worse enemy to chickens than cold
Home and Farm.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-29
The Modern Omce-Boy.

Tommy, my inkstand is almost
empty. Fill it as soon as you can"
Office-boy to Bookkeeper-"Boss
wants smink ritoff. :"
Merchant-''Tomm send this letter
up in the box to Mr.. Scrivner, and see
that he takes it out"
Office-boy puts the missive in the
box and CLUES his thumb to the bell
button.
Mr.. Scrivner with the voice of Ute
chieD-"Well, what's the matter down
thereP"
Office-boy (calmly) -'.Plup box"
The box is pulled up.-BOstoD Tran
Script.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-29

he got out every coat and vest ana Paif
of nants from the closet and sat down
to his buttons. 1 am telling you the
solemn truth when l say that l looked
through the key-hole and saw him de-
liberately cut every button oil OF two
vests and pair of pants, and ne TOOK
one of his new shirts and coolly ripped
it clear down the back TO the bottom
hem. And I will further make
solemn affidavit that the button he lost
| when he got off the car was the only
missing button he had ever complained
| of.
When he had cut the buttons off, as
described, he lighted the gas and got
out his needles and thread. MI. BOW
ser is a near-sighted man, and our gas
fixtures are hung pretty high Be
tween the two he got into trouble. 1t
didn't seem to make any difference to
him which end of the needle he thread
ed. Instead of jabbing the thread ut
the needle he jabbed the needle at the
thread. After about twenty jabs he'd
get discouraged and select another
needle, or break the thread off at
new spot. He finally got the thread
into the eye. doubled it up and tied
GREAT knot at the end, and after twenty
minutes of hard work he got the miss
ing button back on his pantaloons. In
his nervousness he put on a brass
blouse-buttOn with shank, and he
used just three yards of doubled thread
to make it secure.
1t was ten o'clock before he came
down stairs. He had given up the job
with the one button.
"Wall, have you got through?" L
asked.
Got through! Do you expect can
sew on 2S4 buttons in two hoursP'
.Well, I'll see to the rest in the
morning"
mo, you won'ti. Don't you dare to
touch any of my clothing! The worm
has finally turned, and he proposes to
take care of himself after thisr'
Next morning he put on one of the
vests he had stripped of buttons and
fastened it with five safety-pins. He
put on coat from which he had cut
two buttons, and those were also re-
placed by the pins. He came down and
paraded around to attract my notice,
and L finally said
''Mr. Bowser, [ want to beg your
forgiveness. / knew there were over
two hundred buttons off your clothes,
but l was shiftless and slack. This
will be great moral lesson to me, and
| promise you-'
Didn't 1 tell you the worm had
turned?' he interrupted, as he waved
his hand in an imperious way. 81 have
got to 90 down town in this fashion.
People will remark it and of course
they will understand how it is"
He was gone about twenty minutes,
and then sneaked back, slipped softly
upstairs and changed his clothes and
skipped out. Next day heard that he
actually took the car to go down in his
safety-pln suit. He had scarcely got
seated when he heard a passenger
whisper:
.'Why, look at that fat, bald-headed
old coon over there! Is he a tramp or
an escaped lunatic?''
THAT feller?" was the reply. "Why,
that's old Bowser! I'll bet he's rugged
out that way to spite his wife!''
When MIR. Bowser came up to dinner
neither of us mentioned buttons. It
was not until he was ready to leave the
house that he said:
''Mrs. Bowser, this must never hap
pen again-never! You are my wife.
but don't drive me too far-too fari"-
Detroit Free Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-29

"A well-known lady guest of Con-
gress Hall occupied one chair and her
fussy poodle sprawled over another at
the crowded Congress Hall ball last
evening. A weary-looking woman APP
preached the .'owner of the poodle"
saying: as this chair occupied, mad
amp Eyes [sharplyl. my poodle is
occupying it, madam" was the cold
reply, and femininity in the vicinity OF
the poodle mistress drew up its nose a
peg or two.-Albdny Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-29

-Resolute Old Lady (on the ferry
Young man. wish you'd throw away
that nasty cigar; it's making me sick.
Wavering Young Man (meekly COM
pliant) Me, too"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-29

THE planks in a political plat
form. my son, should be so drawn as to
please your own party and injure your
antagonists. - THAT is to say, they
should be so worded as to deceive both
sidesr' .'Yes, that was the idea I had
in nv mind "-Bostoss Transcript.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-29

South Carolina farmers are find
ing it profitable to raise wheat, some
thing they never tried before the late
war.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-29

Every household should add one
more commandments fry beef.
steak
, 1887-12-24
1.-THE AWlg.!!'
Strfsiiansisa ~. Sfuin
Saturday. 24thr Dec. 1887, .

TOMORROW brings. us once more to the
most joyous of the annual Christian festi-
walls, and, following the good bid custom, we
wish one and all of the readers of our paper
A MERRY CHRISTMAS. At such a season
it is good to look on the bright side of life.
to think as much as we can Of the roses and
as little as we can of the inevitable thorns.
AS a community we have indeed much to re-
joice over. The commercial depression,
which has caused SO much loss and has so
long kept us in fear, has once more been
almost if not quite neutralised by a bounti-
full return from the fields, and seems moreover
to give at last a good promise of passing
away. The weather, though it has at times
disappointed us, has on the whole been fa.
vourable, and we may look forward, if not to a
good, at least to a fair average return in the
coming year. Such a position is not one to
complain Of; and when we couple with
the local promise, the prospect for our pro-
duce in the great markets of the world, as
shown to us by recent kilograms, we shall
find full cause to make the day, what every
body tomorrow will be wishing it to be, a
merry one.
, 1887-12-24
Publication
from
The l.

RT is hereby made known, that
- pursuant to Ordinance of 9th
September last, from the 1st January
1888 every birth shall be reported at
the Police Office, those in the town
of Christiansted and suburbs within
48 hours and. in the Country District
on the first SATURDAY after the
birth.
The report is to be made by filing
up a blank form, which will be de-
livered gratis at the Police Office.
Neglect in making the report en-
Joined will be- ep'nslleo with fines.
Ch~tistiansti ~ Police Office, st. Croix
the 10Th DeceA 'er 1886.
MAXEN.
, 1887-12-24
Bekierdtgjorelse


SmET bekjendtgjores herved, at i
~ Henhold til Anordning at Ode
September d. A. skal fra 1ste Januar
1888 enhver B%arnef0dsel, Christian
sted's BY og Forst@der linden 48
Timer og i Landdistriotet den f0rste
LORDAG efter F0dslen, anmeldes
paa Politikammeret.
Anmeldelse skal ske we'd Udfyld,
ming af en- Blanket, SON udleveres
gratis 'paa Politikammeret.
Forsommelse af den paabudne An
meldelse strafes med BIDDER.
Christiansteds Politikammer, st. Crolx
den 19de December 1887.
MAXEN,
est.
, 1887-12-24
P R 0 G E E D N G s
OF TEIE
COLONIAL COUNCIL
FOR 81. CROIX

MONDAY 18th December 1887, II o'clock
noon the Colonial Council held it's 4th
Ordinary Meeting for the present period.
The Members were present With excep-
ton of 4th Grown Member (Richt err, LIST
Member for Christiansted's Country Dis,
trict Hagemann), LIST Member for Frede-
riksted's Country District RuSsellJ End
Member for Frederiksted'S Country Dis
trict (Svitzer), and 4th Member for Frede-
riksted's Country District (McDOnald), Of
whom Members Richter, Hagemann, and
Russell hadnOtified their inability tOattend.
Members Russell and Svitzer took their
seats later.
The Governments Secretary Van Brake
was present in behalf OF the Governor.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read and adopted.
The Chairman said, it would be remem,
bered that in the Councils last meeting 1t
was, by u decision within closed doors,
adopted, that the Chairman, accompanied
10y tho honorable Vico-Chairmln and
Secretary, should call Oh His Honor the
late Vice-GOvernor, Councillor Stakemann,
and tender the Councils congratulations
in consequence of tho celebration of the
golden wedding day Of His Honor on the
3lst October last; in accordance Herewith
the Chairman, Nice-C nalrndn aid Secre-
tary had on the said occasion presented
the Councils congratulations to His Honor,
who had begged to return his best and
warmeSt thanks for this mark OF attention
from the Council.
The Chairman next notified the receipt
of several communications from the Gov
ernment, viz. |, dated 14th October last,
according to which His Majesty had been
pleased on the 9th September last to sane
tion the Ordinance passed by the Council
ON the 2nd June last, concerning Reports
of Births i'll st. Croix 2, dated 18th
Oct. a.. 6. according to which His Majesty
was pleased on the 9th Sept. a. G. to
sanction the Budget for the Municipality
Of st. Croix for l887-SS; 3, letter of same
date conveying information OF His Males
ty's SANCTION on the 9th Sept. of the Addi-
tional Money Bill for 1888 for 500 un-
der Snndry expenses.
The Council proceeded to the Order of
Day viz: @
l. End Discussion on Additional Money
Bill to- the Budget for 18S7-S8 sub
ItemD. 10, Department of public In
struction.
No amendments we're proposed.
End Member for Frederiksted's Country
District (SUitzer), who now took his seat in
the Council, beggedto be permitted to correct
MISREPRESENTATION, that had been made
in the Report of his remarks in the Coun-
cil's last meeting in competition with the
Interpolation he. had introduced. 1850.
The. Chairman pointed out that the min.
, 1887-12-24
BeAje4dtgiorelse e,

mEF bekjendtgj6rgs herved att
80 'sarpn HEINRICH FRANTz
ALEXANDER EGGERS under
lode dennes har overgivet sit Bo til
skiftebehandling som fallit.
AYE og Enhver, som have Noget
at Iordre i bemeldte 30, indkaldes
I-lerved medic Maaneders Varsel til for
undertegnede Skifteret at anmelde
og bevisliggjore deres Krav.
s.. Thom@ skifteret eden 21ae December
Co., =. e. A. JURs.
, 1887-12-24
Transit ion.
Publication.

1pT is hereby made known, that
- Government has authorised Mr..
ROBERT L. MERVIN to act as
British Vice-Consul at ST. CrOix dur
ing the absence Of Vice-Consul Il.
ARMSTRONG.
Government secretary's Office St. Croix
the 21st December 1887.
VAN BRAKLE.